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FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATION:
DISCOURSE THEORY / LINGUISTICS / PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE / RHETORIC AND ARGUMENTATION / SEMIOTICS

ASSOCIATIONS

Communication:

Discourse:

Language:

Logic:

Rhetoric and Argumentation:

• Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

Semiotics:

CONFERENCES

• Enabling Complexities: Communities/Writing/Rhetoric, Seventh Biennial Conference on Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetoric and Writing program, Michigan State University, October 7–10, 2009
• Feminist Rhetorics for Social Justice, Syracuse University, October 23-25, 2008
• Sixth Biennial Conference on Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, University of Arkansas, October 4-6, 2007
• Fifth Biennial Conference on Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, Michigan Technological University, October 5-8, 2005

• Fourth Biennial Conference on Feminism and Rhetoric, Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, Ohio State University, October 23-25, 2003

• Third Biennial Conference on Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, Millikin University, October 18-19, 2001

• Second Biennial Conference on Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, University of Minneapolis, October 7-9, 1999

• First Biennial Conference on Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, Oregon State University, August 28, 1997

COURSES

Communication:

• University of Colorado, Denver:
  • Feminist Perspectives on Communication (Foss)
  • Gender and Communication (Foss)

Discourse:

Language:

Logic:

Rhetoric and Argumentation:

• University of Arizona: History and Theory of Women's Rhetoric (Mountford)
• Ohio University: Feminist Rhetorical Theory (McKerrow)
• Penn State, Ohio State, and Oklahoma Universities: Histories of Feminist Rhetorics and Writing Practices (Glenn, Lunsford, Welch)
• Stanford University:
  • Feminist Rhetorics (Lunsford)
  • Gender and the History of Rhetoric (Lunsford)
• Westfield State College: Women Rhetors and Rhetoricians (Rothermel)

Semiotics:

JOURNALS

Communication:

Discourse:

Language:

Logic:

Rhetoric and Argumentation:

Semiotics:

PERSONS

• Women in Philosophy of Logic and Philosophical Logic (hosted at LORIWEB)

• Twentieth Century:

  • Analytic:

  • Continental:

    • Marxism:

    • Mythology:

    • Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:

    • Psychoanalysis:

    • (Post-)Structuralisms:

      • Deconstruction:

      • Deleuzean Theory:

      • Dialogism:

      • Foucauldian Theory:

        • Judith Butler (1956 - )

      • Semiotics / Semiology / Structuralism:

      • Structuralist Marxism:

      • Structuralist Psychoanalysis:

  • Pragmatism:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Communication:

  • Discourse:

    • Lazar, M., ed.  Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Gender, Power and Ideology in Discourse.  London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.

    • Wodak, Ruth, ed.  Gender and Discourse.  London: Sage, 1997.

  • Language:
    • Linguistics:
      • Cameron, Deborah, ed.  The Feminist Critique of Language: a Reader.  London: Routledge, 1998.
      • Coates, Jennifer, ed.  Language and Gender: a Reader.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
    • Analytic Philosophy of Language:
      • Bauer, Dale, and Kelly Oliver, eds.  "Special Issue on Philosophy and Language."  Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy 7.2 (1992).

      • Haslanger, Sally, ed.  "Feminist Perspectives on Language, Knowledge, and Reality."  Special Issue.  Philosophical Topics 23.2 (1995).

      • Vetterling-Braggin, Mary, ed. Sexist Language: a Modern Philosophical Analysis.  Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams, 1981.

    • Continental Philosophy of Language:

  • Logic:

    • Falmagne, Rachel Joffe, and Marjorie Hass, eds.  Representing Reason: Feminist Theory and Formal Logic.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

  • Rhetoric and Argumentation:
    • Donawerth, Jane, ed.  Rhetorical Theory by Women before 1900.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.

    • Foss, Karen, Sonja Foss, and Cindy Griffin, eds.  Reading in Feminist Rhetorical Theory.  Long Grove, IL: Waveland, 2004.

    • Miller, Hildy, and Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, eds.  Rhetorical Women: Roles and Representations.  Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2005.

    • Ritchie, Angela, and Kate Ronald, eds.  Available Means: an Anthology of Women's Rhetoric.  Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2001.

    • Wetheimer, Molly Meijer, ed.  Listening to their Voices: the Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women.  Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1997.
  • Semiotics:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Communication:

  • Discourse:

    • Tannen, Deborah.  Gender and Discourse.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.

  • Language:

    • Linguistics:

      • Black, Maria, and Rosalind Coward.  "Linguistic, Social and Sexual Relations: a Review of Dale Spender's Man-Made Language."  Screen Education 39 (1981): . 

        • The Feminist Critique of Language: a Reader.  Ed. Deborah Cameron.  London: Routledge, 1998.  111-133.

      • Cameron, Deborah.  Feminism and Linguistic Theory.  London: Macmillan, 1985.

      • Eckert, Penelope, and Sally McConnell-Ginet.  Language and Gender.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

      • Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar.  "Sexual Linguistics, Gender, Language, Sexuality."  The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Theory.  Ed. Catherine Belsey and Jane Moore.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.  81-99.

      • Kaplan, Cora.  "Language and Gender."  Conference on Patriarchy, London, 1976. 
        • The Feminist Critique of Language: a Reader.  Ed. Deborah Cameron.  London: Routledge, 1998.  57-69.
        • Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism.  London: Verso, 1986. 

      • Kittay, Eve Feder.  "Woman as Metaphor."  Feminist Social Thought: a Reader.  Ed. Diana Meyers.  London: Routledge, 1997.  265-285.

      • Lakoff, Robin.  Language and Woman's Place.  New Jersey: Harper and Row, 1975.

      • Mills, Sara.  Feminist Stylistics.  London: Routledge, 1995.

      • Spender, Dale.  Man-Made Language.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. 

        • The Feminist Critique of Language: a Reader.  Ed. Deborah Cameron.  London: Routledge, 1998.  102-110.

      • Talbot, Mary.  Language and Gender: an Introduction.  Cambridge: Polity, 1999.

      • Tannen, Deborah. 

    • Analytic Philosophy of Language:

      • Hornsby, Jennifer.  “Feminism in Philosophy of Language: Communicative Speech Acts.”  Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy.  Ed. M. Fricker and J. Hornsby.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.  87-106.

      • Nye, Andrea.  "A Woman's Language."  Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man.  172-228.

      • Nye, Andrea.  “Semantics in a New Key.”  Philosophy in a Feminist Voice.  Ed. Janet Kourany.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998.
      • Nye, Andrea.  “The Voice of the Serpent: French Feminism and Philosophy of Language.”  Women, Knowledge and Reality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy.  Ed. Ann Garry and Margaret Pearsall.  London: Routledge, 1996.  323–338.

      • Tanesini, A.  “Whose Language?”  Women, Knowledge and Reality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy.  Ed. Ann Garry and Margaret Pearsall.  London: Routledge, 1996.  353–366.

    • Continental Philosophy of Language:

  • Logic:
    • Nye, Andrea.  Words of Power: a Feminist Reading of the History of Logic.  London: Routledge, 1990.

  • Rhetoric and Composition Studies:

    • Campbell, Karlyn Kohrs.  Man Cannot Speak for Her: a Critical Study of Early Feminist Rhetoric.  2 Vols.  New York: Praeger, 1989.

    • Foss, Karen, Sonja Foss, and Cindy Griffin.  Feminist Rhetorical Theories.  Long Grove, IL: Waveland, 1999.

    • Gearhart, Sally Miller.  "The Womanization of Rhetoric."  Women's Studies International Quarterly 2 (1979): 195-201.

    • Glenn, Cheryl.  Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity through the Renaissance.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997.

    • Lunsford, Andrea K.  Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition.  Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995.

    • Millsap, Susan P.  "A Feminist Perspective on Argumentation: an Examination of the Toulmin Model."  Educational Research Information Clearinghouse.  (November 1993): .
    • Ratcliffe, Krista.  Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1995.

  • Semiotics:

On-Line:

• Communication:

• Discourse:

• Language:

  • Linguistics:

  • Analytic Philosophy of Language:

  • Continental Philosophy of Language:

• Logic:

• Rhetoric and Argumentation:

• Semiotics:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Communication:

  • Discourse:

  • Language:

    • Linguistics:

    • Analytic Philosophy of Language:

    • Continental Philosophy of Language:

  • Logic:

  • Rhetoric and Argumentation:

  • Semiotics:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Communication:

  • Discourse:

  • Language:

    • Linguistics:

    • Analytic Philosophy of Language:

    • Continental Philosophy of Language:

  • Logic:

  • Rhetoric and Argumentation:

  • Semiotics:

On-Line:

• Communication:

• Discourse:

• Language:

  • Linguistics:

  • Analytic Philosophy of Language:

    • Saul, Jennifer: Feminist Philosophy of Language (Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy)

  • Continental Philosophy of Language:

• Logic:

• Rhetoric and Argumentation:

  • Lunsford, Andrea: Gender and Rhetoric Bibliography

• Semiotics:
  • Godard, Barbara: Feminism and Semiotics Semiotic Review of Books 13.2 (2003): 1-5.

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